PORTLAND KARTING ASSOCIATION

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The CMC/SwissHutless team will be out of town at the Gatorz race at Calspeed in California. Make sure you get all your needed Karting supplies such as fuel and tires from CMC by Tuesday March 27th. Don will be on the road and unavailable starting Wednesday March 28th.

The location of the first 2012 OSKCS Race this weekend March 24-25 has been changed to PKA's MAC Track in McMinnville.
Unfortunately with the latest batch of rains and snow fall, The Pudding River has overflowed and has put Turn 1 at PARC under water.
Chris Eggers has requested a trade of locations for race #1 and race #3 of the OSKCS series.
So with that the First race of the Series will be at PKA's MAC Track March 24-25 and Race #3 April 22nd will be at PARC instead of MAC.
Please tell all of your friends and competitors so that everyone will be able to attend.
The weather is looking good and it should be a great start of the season.

The annual MAC Track clean up weekend will be here in just 2 weeks. Track Clean up chairman Greg Wick along with committee members John Shearer, and Dwight Besuyen are asking for your help in getting our track cleaned up and all spiffy for the start for the 2012 Race season.

Promotions Committee members JG Francis, David Hunter, and John Shearer are asking for your help in manning the PKA booth at the Roadster Show March 16-18.
If you could give a hand with set up tear down or Manning the booth to get PKA's karting information out to potential new racers we can use you.
Please give a call to John 503-551-2516, JG 503-705-1939 or Dave 971-344-9947. Spend a couple of hours in the booth and then spend the rest of the day looking at all of the great hotrods and roadsters at the show.

In an effort to provide a fair and level playing field the IKF board of directors have voted in some changes for the Briggs Animal and Flathead engines beginning April 1, 2012. The original restrictor plates manufactured by Horstman are no longer available for either engine.
Only restrictor plates manufactured by American Power Sports (APS) will be allowed after April 1st.

PKA Board of Directors is happy to announce the Hosted Practice Schedule at PKA's MAC Track for the 2012 Season.
The scheduled hosted weekend and select weekday practices have been on the PKA’s to do list for some time, as they have had success in previous years limited practice programs.